Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of HistoryTHE CONTROVERSIAL SEQUEL TO AT DAWN WE SLEPT -- A PROBING ANALYSIS OF THE ROOT CAUSES OF PEARL HARBOR, AMERICA'S MOST CATASTROPHIC MILITARY DEFEATThe monumental bestseller At Dawn We Slept was a landmark re-creation of the apocalyptic events of December 7, 1941. This provocative sequel delves even further to examine the underlying causes of Pearl Harbor and the revisionist theories that Roosevelt and other high officials knew about the attack.With the same imposing scholarship and narrative drive that distinguished its predecessor, Pearl Harbor uncovers the secret roles played by the president, his cabinet secretaries, admirals, and generals in the weeks before the attack. Based on more than forty years of research, extensive interviews, and an insider's knowledge of the military, this book poses an explosive and highly convincing new theory of America's entry into the Pacific War. Like the very best works of history, it not only expands but dramatically deepens our understanding of the events that were once the province of myth and rumor. |
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38 It is possible that someone aboard Lurline or elsewhere may have picked up
the broadcasts from Japan which went out quite regularly . Every message was
repeated several times to make sure that Nagumo received them , and special ...
38 It is possible that someone aboard Lurline or elsewhere may have picked up
the broadcasts from Japan which went out quite regularly . Every message was
repeated several times to make sure that Nagumo received them , and special ...
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Even by the today ' s high standard technologies , it is utterly inconceivable to
pick up VHF waves some 4 , 000 miles ... was passing a point some 4 , 000 miles
away from San Francisco , when Toland claims the U . S . picked up radio signals
.
Even by the today ' s high standard technologies , it is utterly inconceivable to
pick up VHF waves some 4 , 000 miles ... was passing a point some 4 , 000 miles
away from San Francisco , when Toland claims the U . S . picked up radio signals
.
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10 Miles recalled that the Army also had the SIS “ check with the British to see
that we did not miss that implementation , but it was a broadcast in plain
Japanese that we were waiting for . . . and we undoubtedly were just as capable
of picking ...
10 Miles recalled that the Army also had the SIS “ check with the British to see
that we did not miss that implementation , but it was a broadcast in plain
Japanese that we were waiting for . . . and we undoubtedly were just as capable
of picking ...
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Contents
ADVISERS PLANNERS AND CHIEFS | 139 |
Unsurmountable Obstacles | 158 |
Crimination and Recrimination | 177 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History |
| Authors | Gordon William Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon |
| Photographs by | Katherine V. Dillon |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 007050668X, 9780070506688 |
| Length | 699 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Military / World War II |
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